http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2547204tocqueville (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-05-06 04:01 PM
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1. complete BS
the "union" Action Police has 150 members among the 100 of thousands policemen in France. Action Police is a so called Christian union and the leader Michel Thooris is a complete nut with sympathies with Le Pen and De Villiers (catholic integrist). He has previously declared that the "youth" was "armed with RPGs, AK47 and heavy weapons" and therefore the police should be more heavily equipped... This guy is more dangerous than the street gangs. In reality there are very few illegal "normal" firearms in the French suburbs and they have never been used against the police under riot circumstances.
It is true that there has been recent clashes with street gangs but it has nothing to do with "Muslims" : many of them are black (and of Christian background) and not so few white.
About the wounded police, it's mostly for minor scratches, few are seriously wounded (two serously recently).
It's true that measures have to be taken (which would be easier if some in the French left wing weren't shouting fascism everytime a brown skinned delinquent is arrested) but this is not Baghdad.
And it's only hurting France's image. Probably on purpose.